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Jess Kim (b. Seoul)  is a NYC based Product Designer. She reads where people stall inside complex tools, then designs to move them. E-commerce trained, fast to ship. An artist at heart.
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007 An Extended Reverie
 Abstract Photographic Art
INDEPENDENT


Photographing What Won't Hold Still
"Three kinds of dream, one shared property: none of them stay. So the series stops chasing the dream and builds a surface that behaves like one."






Overview: One word, three things: the dream you have asleep, the dream you have for your life, the reverie you fall into at a desk. What links them isn't content — it's that none of them hold. One fades on waking, one may never arrive, one dissolves the moment you notice it. So the series doesn't try to picture a dream. It builds surfaces that behave like one.




 Details: Abstract Photography
Materials: shimmer glitter, pearls, gel nail polish
Method: things made to catch light, shot past the point of recognition — the object drops out, only the shine stays




Key References:
· The Cranberries - Dreams ↗
· The theory and practice of color ↗


Awards:
· Sunwood President's Art Selection — Stony Brook University
for "Dream, Dream, and Dreaming," part of this series